Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps Thursday announced the arrest of “a network of homosexuals and Satanists” in the western city of Kermanshah. According to the announcement, which came via their official website, a number of foreign nationals, including Iraqis, were among those detained. Kermanshah is close to the country’s border with Iraq. The Revolutionary Guards claimed the group had been under surveillance for some time but did not state how many people were ...

Pakistan’s Internet watchdog has blocked the deeply conservative Muslim country’s first website aimed at gay people, saying it was “against Islam.” The queerpk.com site, set up to help members of Pakistan’s homosexual and transgender community socialize and share experiences, was shut down on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority said they had halted access to the site after complaints from Internet users. “We blocked the website ...